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'Wow, that part sure scared the hell outta me!' joked Amanda as we walked out of the theatre together.

Ever since we first met by accident, Amanda and I hung around from time to time. Slowly, I sensed a feeling inside me; a feeling words couldn't discribe. Was I actually starting to like her? Or was it just because she looked like Kelly?

'C'mon, that part was totally predicted. What was so scary about that?' I demanded, knocking away any useless thoughts inside my head.

We kept making jokes, teasing each other until we arrived at her place.

'Well, thanks for the movie Derek.' Amanda said as she walked across the street backwards.

'Yeah, anyt-' My senses rocketed upwards suddenly as I tugged her by the arm, yanking her forwards against my shoulder as a van rushed passed, the driving cursing at the top of his lungs.

I turned my head to see if she was alright, only to see her staring at me, a strange look on her face. I tried to speak, but the words just wouldn't come.

There we stood, eye to eye. Moments went by, but neither of us moved. Without realizing it, I felt my head move forwards. Amanda seeing this, did the same.

My mind was numb as I saw her face getting closer and closer. Sucking in all my courage, I silently accepted whatever was in store for me.

'Beep beep beep beep.'

The ringing of my morpher knocked us both back to reality as Amanda immediately backed off, her face blushing a crimson red. 'I'll..... I'll see you later!' She stammered, running as fast as she could into her house.

Shaking myself off, I hid in a corner and pressed the button. 'Derek here.'

'Derek?' The voice over the line crackled. 'It's Shane.'

It was a bit of shock to hear the voice a fellow ranger suddenly. 'Shane? What's the matter? Is everything all right?'

A note of panic covered his words as he spoke. 'Not really. Are you busy with anything? We could definitely use some help.'

'No problem. What's the case?' I asked, surprised to see that the guys were in such an urgent situation.

'I'll fill you in when you get here.'

Nodding to nobody, I straightened up. 'Hang on, I'm on my way. See you guys at Ninja Ops.' As soon as the connection was off, I contacted Panther for aid.

'Panther, I need to head back to Blue Bay. Think you could lend me a hand?' I asked.

Panther of course, got ready to take off immediately. Checking that the coast was clear, I changed into my ninja suit.

The zord took off as soon as I ran inside. Fearing that we'd be spotted if we took flight, I decided to go underwater. Hopefully, we'd be able to get to Blue Bay undetected.

'Derek, what's going on?' Panther asked as we sped through currents and waves.

I shrugged, clearly not knowing how to answer the question. 'I have no idea, but it sounded really serious. We'd better go faster.'

Half an hour later, the zord docked near a steep hill, shading us from anyone else. Not wanting to waste a further moment, I headed straight over to Ninja Ops.

Skidding to a halt in front of the waterfall, I realized that I didn't have the password inside. Absent mindly, I ran straight forward, only to hit solid rock, the pain knocking me down.

Through the daze of pain, I made out the figure of Tori walk out from the waterfall. 'Derek, you alright?'

Brushing myself off, I nodded. 'Yeah. So, what's going on?'

Tori jestured at the waterfall, as I followed her inside. Shane, Dustin, Cam and Kanoi were all inside as I went into the dojo.

'Derek, you're here.' Kanoi said as I gave him a slight bow.

Looked around, I saw that Hunter and Blake were missing. 'Where're the Thunders?'

'No idea, dude.' Said Dustin, a grave look covering his usually goofy jestures.

'Ok, can anyone please tell me what's going on here?' I demanded.

Cam frowned, and pressed several buttons on the computer. 'See for yourself.' He said, as a screen of the Wind Rangers fighting Kelzacks came on.

'There were a bunch of Kelzacks attacking the countryside this morning, we were sent to stop them.' Explained Shane as the last Kelzack disappeared.

I scratched my head in confusion. 'But you defeated them.'

Pointing to the screen, Shane sighed. 'That's when it happened.' From the screen, I saw that a small explosion blew the rangers off their feet. As the camera zoomed out, I made out five figures.

Five figures in different colored costumes. Red, yellow, blue, black and white. Their helemts designed like animal heads, claws sprouted from the tip of their gloves. A small saber was attached to their belt.

'Those aren't rangers are they?' I blurted as the costumed figures fought the guys, and gained the upper hand in no time at all. Soon, the Wind Rangers were forced to retreat as the screen went blank.

Turning to face me from his chair, Cam spoke. 'As a matter of fact, they are.' He pressed another button, and it showed some clip of those costumed figures fighting some monster. 'They are the Wild Force Rangers. Before we went into action, they were the ones responsible for protecting the planet.'

'Them?' I questioned, not clearly believing what I heard.

'Cole Evans, Red Ranger. Taylor Earlheart, Yellow Ranger. Max Cooper, Blue Ranger. Danny Delgalto, Black Ranger and Alyssa Enrile, White Ranger. The five of them fought a band of evil beings who tried to destroy the environment called Orgs.' Cam explained, as the screen continued to show various clips.

Dustin scratched his head. 'If they were rangers, they why would they attack us? It just doesn't make sense.'

'That', Kanoi replied, 'Is the real mystery, Dustin.'

Suddenly, the alarm sprang to life as every single head inside the dojo turned to the screen.

'Great!' muttered Shane as he saw what was going on.

Blake and Hunter, both morphed, were being flattened by the Wild Force Rangers.

'C'mon guys!' Tori said in a hurry. 'We have to help them.'

Cam turned around once again from the screen. 'You guys go ahead first, I'll see if I could get any further information.'

Getting myself ready, I nodded. 'Then let's do it guys! Tornado Storm, Ranger Form!'

'Ninja Storm, Ranger Form!'

'Ninja Ranger Power!'

Hunter and Blake were ready to fire the Thunder Cannon when we arrived. Quick as we could, Shane tried to wrestle the thing away from Hunter.

'Get away Shane!' Hunter demanded, trying to pry him off.

Shane continued to struggle as the others tried to help. 'No, you don't understand. They're Power Rangers.'

This caused Hunter and Blake both to take a step back in surprise. 'What?'

'They're the Wild Force Rangers, the team of rangers before us.' Tori explained quickly.

'Is that right, guys?' Dustin asked the five figures, as they stood before us.

In a blaze of light, their costumes vanished, only to be replaced by five ordinary humans. Each of them wore a different colored vest.

Shane suddenly took a step forward. 'Tell me, why did you help Lothor?'

The rangers remained silent, but a small smirk appeared on each of their faces.

'Why?' Shane repeated. 'Aren't you protectors of peace like ourselves? The warriors of justice?'

Without warning, the five of them burst into laughter, laughing non-stop until tears formed in their eyes.

'Warriors of justice?' Taunted the red ranger, a muscular man with a red bandanna on his forehead. 'Don't you guys feel ashamed by saying this? And what's that got to do with us?'

Dustin turned to Shane. 'You don't think they've lost their memory?' He whispered.

A tall blonde woman, the yellow ranger grabbed Dustin by the helmet and jeered at him. 'We've lost our memory? Silly!' Then she added to the others, 'Guys, why are we wasting our time with these little kiddies?' With that, she flung Dustin backwards as he toppled to the floor.

'We're not kiddies!' Tori demanded furiously, 'We've had numerous battles with Lothor before.'

The blue ranger laughed, 'Sorry to offend you babe. But it's the truth.'

'Our hearts are all dyed pure black, black as coal.' The black ranger, a big tall guy added.

My fists tightened slowly, an anger rising. 'What?'

Shaking her head, the white ranger finally spoke. 'You guys still don't get it? How dumb!'

'I don't know what's going on here,' Growled Hunter, 'But it seems that all your minds have been twisted.'

The red ranger put a hand onto his chest. 'That's right. We, have already sold our souls to evil. That clear enough?' As an evil, hollow laugh escaped his throat.

I saw Shane tremble in anger as he launched forward, grabbing the red ranger by the collar and lifting him up. 'Quit joking. Tell me the truth!' He demanded furiously.

The next thing I saw was Shane lying on the ground, a series of scars running down his suit. I lifted my head up, only to see the red ranger re- morphed, deadly claws extending from his glove.

'You ok?' I asked as Shane stubbornly got up, smoke still simmering from his body.

The rangers turned their heads to us. 'Now it's time we took you down.' And without warning, they lifted their hands up into the air. 'Crystals, return to us!'

Like magic, five colored spheres fell from the sky, straight into the open palms of the rangers. Immediately, the five of them placed them into their daggers and raised them high above their heads.

'Wild zords, descend!'

A beautiful tune rang across the area as the skies suddenly rumbled and shook. All of us raised our heads upwards as the rumbling got closer.

'Over there!' Tori cried out suddenly, pointing a finger to the skies. For real, we could see five metallic animals approach.

I shook my head in disbelief. 'Zords?'

'Cam, send over the zords right away!' Hunter ordered, rasing the morpher to his mouth.

'But,' Shane choked, trying to make out words to stop him.

Hunter grabbed Shane and shook him slightly. 'Face it, they're our enemies now. Cam, quick!'

At the same time, my own morpher started to beep.

'Derek!' Panther called, 'There are a bunch of humans here, should I ignore them and get over?'

This was just perfect! 'Uh- Stay there for now, and get here straight away when it's clear.'

'Don't worry! Dustin yelled from the Lion zord, 'We'll be able to hold them off.'

As if hearing his words as well, the five animal zords merged together and formed a megazord.

'Guys, let's do it!' Shane yelled from his cockpit, 'Storm Megazord!'

Laughing dangerously, Blake and Hunter did the same. 'Thunder Megazord!'

The sun was already starting to drop below the horizon as the zords faced each other, the glittering sunlight dancing off each of their steel bodies.

The Thunders got ready for battle as the megazord of the Wild Force rangers approached, Shane however, still didn't want to fight, causing the Storm Megazord to suffer an attack.

'Shane, forget about it!' Roared Hunter angrily, 'They're already our enemies.'

After that, the Thunder Megazord charged, weapon raised. With a huge slash, it sent the huge zord backwards, sparks bouncing off its body.

However, that didn't seem to take it down as it straightened itself up. Without warning, five beams emitted from the body as lazers fired directly at the Thunder Megazord.

Hunter and Blake screamed in pain as they were knocked down to the ground, the megazord clearly damaged badly.

'That's it!' Shane yelled angrily, 'No more nice guy. Lightning mode, engage!'

At command, the Storm Megazord thrusted itself forward at incredible speed, jumping around the area to confuse the enemy.

However, the Wild Force Megazord seemed not to notice all this, looking at one single direction the whole time. It suffered a triple hit as lightning mode aimed its blade at the head, legs and torso.

My fingers started to cross as the guys were only 25 seconds away from reverting back to normal. Suddenly, the same tune from before rang across my ears, followed by a series of rumbling. I turned towards the source, only to see a gigantic elephant.

Immediately, it formed together with the megazord to form some sort of sword and shield. Without warning, it reered itself into a striking position, as if waiting for prey.

The next thing I saw was a enormous explosion followed by a large 'Crack'. With a fall that shook the ground, the Storm Megazord lay sprawled across the ground.

Slowly, a huge shadow loomed over it as the Wild Force Megazord approached, preparing to deliver its fatal blow.

My whole body tensed up as I flipped out the Panther Cannon, if Panther couldn't make it here on time, I'd have to try to take it on alone.

As the huge elephant sword lowered in a single swift motion, I wrapped my finger round the trigger and was about to fire, when-

'Megazord, NO!'

Who's screaming, and why have the Wild Force rangers sold their souls to evil suddenly? Could someone be behind all this? Next chapter coming up soon, stay tuned!